Ezr 7:6, 11, Neh 8:9 | ESV | STEP | this Ezra went up from Babylonia . He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord , the God of Israel , had given , and the king granted him all that he asked , for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

Ezra 7:6

6 this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe ^askilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, ^bfor the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

Ezra 7:11

11 This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a man learned in matters of the commandments of the Lord and his statutes for Israel:

Nehemiah 8:9

This Day Is Holy

9 And Nehemiah, who was ^cthe governor, and Ezra ^dthe priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, ^e“This day is holy to the Lord your God; ^fdo not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.